Ernst
Zündel Ernst
Zündel It is indeed ironic, and glaringly exposes the ignorance of Nizkor about
the ample, very basic literature that has already dealt with this question,
that they would state this answer is "correct."
In order to be consistent in their claims, the exterminationsts' point
of view should have been that the "genocidal gas" used was different
from camp to camp, for that had been their claim for years. Zyklon-B was
claimed to have been used in some camps but not in others.
Specifically, the exterminationist claim had been for years that HCN (Zyklon-B)
had been used at Auschwitz, Majdanek, Natzweiler and Mauthausen. On the
other hand, camps such as Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor allegedly used CO
from Diesel engine exhaust or - even more illogically in energy-starved
wartime Germany - from gasoline engine exhausts (Sobibor, Chelmno). (cp.
R. Kammerer, A. Solms, "Das Rudolf Gutachten", Cromwell Press,
London 1993)
Of course, none of these silly, unscientific claims are based on fact.
The fact is that there is not one small shred of scientific evidence that
genocidal gassings were ever carried out in any German concentration camp!
Nizkor must have reasoned sloppily that Zyklon-B based HCN was genocidally
used in all the camps because it was indeed available in all the camps
and in all German Army and SS installations to fumigate the barracks, as
invoices attest - FOR DELOUSING to save lives, not to kill people!
Zyklon-B was a widely used commercial pesticide throughout all of Europe
where hygienic conditions deteriorated for friend and foe alike, and invoices
prove nothing. Zyklon-B was used to control pests feasting on refugees
fleeing from the Soviets, on Greater Reich civilians huddling in their
cities' ruins that had no longer running water, on soldiers spending weeks
in their mud trenches, on the SS who came in contact with the lice-infected
partisans etc.
Adds our researcher, a specialist and university graduate in chemistry
whom we consulted to get an update on this question, referring to the Nizkor
claim: "These chaps need our help defending their own theory!"
October 1, 1996